Aug 13th 

Hell Drivers*                               

GB 1957. Rank/Aqua. 108m. bw Vistavision

An ex-convict tries to get work as a ballast truck driver with several shady rivals.
Deliberately unpleasant working class melodrama which tries hard to be a British On the Waterfront, but the story goes on a one-note course, the driving scenes become repetitious, and most of the acting is over the top. The actors themselves however, are an interesting collection of past and future talents.

Written by: John Kruse, Cy Endfield.
Producer: S. Benjamin Fisz.
Director: Cy Endfield.
Starring: Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Patrick McGoohan, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Wilfrid Lawson, Jill Ireland, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Gordon Jackson, Sean Connery, David McCallum.
Photography: Geoffrey Unsworth.
Music: Hubert Clifford.

HELL DRIVERS. Stanley Baker looked as suave and determined as a potential James Bond in this tough lorry drivers melodrama, in between Sid James and a future James Bond in the making.